Give Me a Fast Ship Page 73
by Tim McGrath
Independence Seaport Museum
This early-nineteenth-century London engraving shows Commodore Collier’s fleet blasting away at Saltonstall’s ships on the last day of the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition.
New York Historical Society
Gustavus Conyngham’s captain’s commission: signed by John Hancock, given to him by Benjamin Franklin, and taken from him by the French.
